Ranking of Districts in North East States of India by the Use of Standard of Living Index Using 2001 and 2011 Census

Due to limited literature available to highlight the economic level and status for states and districts of North east India, the present study attempt to capture the same by extracting the information on living standards of the people through the eight variables collected during the 2001 and 2011 census. Standard of living index is constructed through the use of Principal component analysis, where state and districts in the region are rank. This study can have important policy implications concerning directing the resources to those districts of the region which have slip in the rank between the two censuses